Matanzas: Eocene, Cuba

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Echinoidea - Echinolampadoida - Echinolampadidae
Echinolampas castroi Cotteau 1881
Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Asterostomatidae
Prosostoma jimenoi (Cotteau 1870)
Echinoidea - Spatangoida - Brissidae
Schizobrissus jacksoni Lambert 1926
see common names

Geography
Country:Cuba
Coordinates: 22.7° North, 81.5° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:23.1° North, 71.6° West
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:outcrop
Time
Period: Paleogene Epoch: Eocene
10 m.y. bin: Cenozoic 2-3
Key time interval: Eocene
Age range of interval: 56 - 33.9 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Stratigraphy comments: STRATIGRAPHIC RELATIONS: From unknown lithostratigraphic unit. AGE: Eocene, for which justification is not reported. STRATIGRAPHIC POSITION: From unknown position within local section.
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: lithified not reported
Includes fossils?Y
Lithology description: SPECIFIC LITHOLOGY: Unknown lithology. LITHIFICATION: Lithified, on the basis of figured specimens.
Environment:marine indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: COLLECTOR: Unknown. REPOSITORY: Collection of Sanchez Roig (unknown repository).
Taxonomic list comments:COVERAGE: Exhaustive for echinoidermata. NOMENCLATURE: Authoritative publication with a ntiquated nomenclature, but updated with more recent publications; with species-resolution identifications.
Metadata
Database number:91162
Authorizer:A. Hendy Enterer:A. Hendy
Research group:marine invertebrate
Created:2009-09-07 20:06:21 Last modified:2013-11-25 13:37:23
Access level:the public Released:2009-09-07 20:06:21
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:

30664. M. Sanchez Roig. 1926. Los Equiodermos fosiles de Cuba. Contribucion a la paleontologia Cubana 1-179 [A. Hendy/A. Hendy/A. Hendy]